Trouser measurer and hanger

ABSTRACT

A trouser measurer and hanger that will display the waist size of the trouser secured thereto. Telescoping parts of the hanger are spring biased relative to each other so that the front portion of the trousers can be folded inwardly over two depending fingers carried by the main body and the trousers clamped by their waist portion to the hanger. The hangers are provided with projections to support the trousers on wall or rod supports at different elevations depending upon the length of the trousers. A trouser cuff table adjustable to different elevations receives the trouser cuff so that the length of the trouser will be measured from their different elevations of their wall supports.

United States Patent [72] [mentor Edward C. Green 36 W. th St.. New York. NY. {21 1 Appl. No. 834,845 [22] Filed June 19, I969 Patented Feb. 2, 1971 [54] TROUSER MEASURER AND HANGER 10 Claims, 1 1 Drawing Figs.

[52] US. Cl [5 l 1 Int. Cl Field of Search [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 666.235 1/1901 Osgood 1,922.858 8/1933 Page 2,663,471 12/1953 Pedersen .v

Primary ExaminerJordan Franklin Assistant Examiner-George H. Krizmanich Attorney-Polachek and Saulsbury ABSTRACT: A trouser measurer and hanger that will display the waist size of the trouser secured thereto. Telescoping parts of the hanger are spring biased relative to each other so that the front portion of the trousers can be folded inwardly over two depending fingers carried by the main body and the trousers clamped by their waist portion to the hanger. The hangers are provided with projections to support the trousers on wall or rod supports at different elevations depending upon the length of the trousers. A trouser cuff table adjustable to different elevations receives the trouser cuff so that the length of the trouser will be measured from their different elevations of their wall supports.

PATENTEDFEB 2|97| $559,852

8% H784 87 as 38 EDWARD C. GREEN TROUSER MEASURER AND HANGER This invention relates to a trouser measurer and hanger.

In stores where trousers are displayed it is difficult to locate trousers of the desired waist size and length where many times such trousers have been removed from the rack and even the hanger and then replaced upon the rack at the improper location making it difficult for a subsequent purchaser to locate their size. Many would be purchasers would not go through the trouble of trying to locate further their size and often a sale is lost.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide a trouser hanger that can measure the waist size of the trouser and bear the identification and size upon it and in which the hanger when supported at certain elevation will have the cuffs or bottom ends of the trousers touch a bottom platform so that immediately the length of the trousers will accordingly be displayed.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a trouser measurer and hanger that will eliminate the improper placing of the trousers on the racks and make easy the selection of the trousers to proper waist size and length immediately and directly from the trouser rack.

It is another object of the invention to provide a trouser measurer and hanger system in which the salesmans time in refolding and replacing worn out size tags may be eliminated and wherein the size and length of the trousers will become self evident from the size mentioned on the hanger and the height of the trouser hanger support above a fixed floor bottom with which the cuff ends of the trousers will engage.

It is further object of the invention to provide a trouser measurer and hanger that will allow the trousers to hang their full length and in their natural vertical position, eliminate the soiled look of the trousers when worn, aid the perspective purchaser to tell at a glance the proper size of the trousers and thereby avoid needless handling of the trousers.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a trouser measurer and hanger, having the above objects in mind, which is of simple construction, light in weight, allow the trousers to be attached to the same in an expeditious manner, the hanger to its support easily, has an adjustable cuff base, effective and efficient in use.

For a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which;

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the trouser measurer hanger employing the features of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the hanger as viewed on line 2-2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary bottom plan view of the hanger looking in the direction of arrows 3-3 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the hanger taken on line 44 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is an illustrative perspective view showing the manner in which the trousers are first attached to the hanger.

FIG. 6 is an illustrative perspective view of the hanger showing how the trousers are pulled inwardly at the front to measure them and determine the size indication from a window on top of the hanger.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the hanger support and bottom trouser cuff support from which the trouser lengths are measured.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of the trouser cuff support to be taken on line 8-8 of FIG. 7.

FIG. 9 is a collective view of a modified form of hanger in which the hanger is supported by a hook located intermediate the length of the hanger.

FIG. 10 is an exploded perspective view of a still further form of a hanger in which the hanger is supported at one end on a plate having vertically extending projections extendable through vertically spaced holes of the hanger,

FIG. 1 1 is an assembled longitudinal sectional view thereof. Referring now to FIGS. l8, represents generally the hanger construction according to this form of the invention and which is adapted to measure the waist and size of a trouser while gripping and supporting the trouser hanging in its natural manner This hanger comprises generally a tubular member 16 of square section closed at one end as indicated at 17 and at the other end provided with a telescopically adjustable finger support arm I8 having a depending formation 19 on the forward face of which there is provided a spring clip 21 adapted to be clipped over the rear of the trousers and support and retain the same under the action of its coiled spring 22. Slidably fitted to the closed end I7 of the tubular member 16 is a main body 23 which is normally maintained outwardly telescoped from the tube 16 by a coiled compression spring 24 and retained against displacement from the tubular member 16 by a stop screw 26 engaging the forward end of an elongated slot 27.

The body member 23 has a hook projection 28 by which the hanger bearing the trousers can be supported on the vertically spaced parallel rods 31 and 32 carried on wall brackets 33 and 34 at a measured distance from the floor and from a bottom cuff table 35, FIG. 7.

The adjustable arm 18 has a series of notches 36 in its lower face to adapt it to be engaged by a spring clip 37 protruding through a hole 38 in the bottom face of the tubular member 16 and biased inwardly for engagement with the notches 36 by a coil spring 39.

On the upper face of the arm 18 are a series of waist size numbers 41 that can be read through a window opening 42. When the trousers are first applied to the hanger as illustrated in FIG. 5, the arm 18 is adjusted in the tubular member 16 to the known size indicated on the trouser lable that goes with the trousers, but no longer required, the hanger measures the garment.

Trousers 43 are closed at the front at the fly portions 44 and these portions are extended upwardly over two vertically extending depending pins 45 and 46 while the rear of the trousers are retained over the depending portion 19 on the arm 18. A depending pin 47 having a finger trough 48 in its front face is located between the two pins 45 and 46 and depends from and is carried by a slidable plate member 49 slidably attached to the top face of the main body 23 by depending clip portions 51 and 5 wrapped under the bottom face of the main body to hold the same rigidly thereon. The trailing end of the plate member 49 has a tooth portion 53 adapted to engage with any of a series of teeth projections 54 extending upwardly from the top face of the main body member 23. Since the main body member can be moved over the tubular member 16 and with the depending finger 47 of the plate 49 being moved rearwardly the front portion of the trousers is drawn inwardly as best seen in FIG. 6 to tighten the trousers between the depending portion 19 of the arm 18 and the fingers 46. To effect this adjustment the finger is inserted as shown in FIG. 6 in the trough 48 of the pin 47 and the front portion of the trousers are drawn along with the plate 49 that slides along the body 23 until the tooth 53 registers with anyone of the teeth 54, when the trousers are taut.

The coiled spring 24 will bias the engagement of the tooth 53 with the tooth 54. The depending finger 47 of the slide plate 49 moves through an elongated slot 55 in the body member 23.

It will thus be seen that trousers of a given size will have been retained on the hanger 15. These hangers 15 can then be connected between the rods 31 and 32 by its hook end projection 28 and supported in a horizontal position so that the trousers depend evenly at the bottom table 35. The wall support rods 31 and 32 may depend lower at one end than at the other as provided by the intermediate downwardly inclined portions 56 so that trousers of different lengths can be disposed on the spaced bars 31 and 32, and if the bottom table is leveled to reach all of the cuffs the trousers at one end of the rods 31 and 32 will have a different length than the trousers supported by their hangers at the other end of those rods. Thus one can step up to the rod supports and noting the size on the top of the hanger can pick the proper waist size that he may desire and at the same time the proper length If he is uncertain as to what his size may be. he may make use of a tape measure 57 carried on the wall support 33 In order to level the table 35 the turn buckle legs 58 are provided so that by turning a coupling member 59 a table top 61 can be elevated or lowered since threaded members,62 and 63 joined by the adjusting sleeve 59 are respectively left-hand and right-hand threaded. The lower threaded member 62 has a foot plate 64 thereon and the upper member 63 has an attaching plate 65 secured by screws 66 to the underface of the table top 61.

In FIG. 9, according to this form of the invention, there is shown a member 23' without the longitudinally extending hook formation 28 of the hanger but otherwise of the same construction and similar numerals apply as did apply to the hanger 15 to the hanger shown in FIG. 9. The hanger shown in FIG. 9 indicated generally at 15 has measured arm 18' thereon with clip finger l9, tubular member 16 with size viewing window 42' and toothed ratchet clip 37. The main body part 23 has depending fingers 45' and 46' and movable finger 47 carried on slide plate 49 to pull the finger through elongated slot 55 or as above described to register tooth 53' with teeth 54'.

This hanger will be supported by a central hook 48 slidably secured on the tubular portion 16' by a U-shaped clip member 69 to balance the trousers upon the hangers 15'. With this arrangement of the hook 68 the trousers can depend directly from a supporting rod with the cuffs registering with a cuff table top 61 and to indicate the length of the trousers.

Referring now particularly to FIGS. 10 and 11, there is shown a modified form of the invention which can function in the same manner as can the hangers above described. This hanger as indicated generally at 70 comprises a vertically spaced pair of tubular members 71 and 72 secured together at their forward ends by a fixed plate 73 to keep them in spaced relation. Slidably fitted in the respective upper and lower tubular members are supporting arms 74 and 75 that are joined together by a vertically extending finger member 76 over which the rear portion of the trousers are extended. The inner ends of the tubes 71 and 72 have respectively vertically aligned holes 77 and 78 adapted to engagingly receive depending long and upwardly extending short pin formation 79 and 81 provided by a plate 82 secured to the desired height upon a supporting wall 83. A series of these pin projections are provided along the plate 82 for the mounting of any number of several of the hangers now being described thereupon.

The tubes 71 and 72 are held in spaced relation by a slidable plate 84 aligned with the front plate 73 and between these plates there extends a rod 85 within which there is supported an elongated coil spring 86.

The plate 84 is rigidly carried on a vertically elongated faced sleeve 87 which is biased through the plate 84 and spring 86 rearwardly and retained by engagement of the plate 84 with bolt head 88 and adjustable nut 89 on the forward end of the bolt 85 and engaging with end plate 73.

Depending from vertically elongated sleeve 87 are two parallel fixed fingers 91 and 92 over which the front portion 44 of trousers 43 are initially placed while the rear portion of the trousers are placed at their waists over the finger 76 on the arms 74 and 75.

A second vertical elongated sleeve 93 is slidable upon the tubes 71 and 72 forwardly of the sleeve 87 and carries a rearwardly extending portion 94 extending rearwardly upon its forward edge and having an upwardly tooth 95 extending trough a slot 96 for engagement with any number of serrations 97 in the lower edge of the tube 72. On the rear end of the portion 94 there depends a finger 98 that can pass upon engaging front portion 44 of the trousers between the fingers 91 and 92 to hold the trousers together at their waist line for support upon the depending fingers 76, 91 and 92 of the hanger 70.

As with the other forms of the invention, the arms 74 and 75 are first adjusted in the tubes 71 and 72 to the desired size indicated at 99 on the upper arm 74 and adjacent adjusting depressions 101 into which a pin 102 of a spring biased lever 103 is pivotally mounted on the forward end of the upper tube 71 can enter to hold the arms 74 and 75 to the nonadjusted waist size of the trousers. Thereafter with the trousers in place over the finger 76 and the depending fingers 91 and 92 of sleeve 87 and sleeve 93 with depending finger 98 pulled the trousers 43 will be'tightened upon the hanger and the waist size readable upon the top of the arm 74 adjacent the depression holes 101. This hanger can be used in the same manner as the hangers 15 and 15 andwith a cuff table 35 to display the different lengths of trousers, the supporting projections 79 and 81 being for the different length trousers mounted on the wall surface 83 at different elevations according to the trouser length.

It should be apparent that as shown in the form of invention in FIG. 1 the clip 21 could be something other than a spring clip. It could be a piece of spring steel or flexible plastic and can take any other suitable form that will grip or hold the trousers.

When the trousers are first placed on the hanger as shown in FIG. 5 and the hanger is extended to the extended position the size will be determined and made available through the small window 52 making unnecessary to have on the trousers themselves size labels. Thus labels on trousers will have been eliminated by this invention, and unnecessary. The hanger itself will tell one the waist size of the trousers.

FIG. 6 shows the fly of the front part of the trousers but pleated and placed into their natural hanging position. The exact size of the trousers would have been recorded when the hanger is applied to the trouser as in FIG. 5, the arm 18 not being moved after the size of the trousers has been taken. The hanger does the measuring and size tags are no longer necessary, which can be said to be a very important feature of the invention.

lclaim:

1. A trouser measurer and hanger comprising telescoping members adjustable relative to each other and having indicating marking to adjust the hanger to a given size of trouser, said telescoping members adapted to support the rear portion of the trousers, a body member connected to the telescoping members slidably movable relative thereto, a pair of laterally spaced fingers depending from the body member adapted to support the front portion of the trousers, a slidable member slidably mounted upon the body member and having a finger depending therefrom between said spaced fingers, said finger adapted to engage the front portion of the trousers and pull the same over and between the fixed pair of dependingfingers, locking means for securing the body member with the single finger in its adjusted position forwardly on the body member and spring biasing means carried on the body member to bias the body member rearwardly from the telescoping member.

2. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said telescoping members comprising a tubular member and an arm extendable into the tubular member, a spring biased latch on one of the telescoping members and recess members on the other of the telescoping members to lock the telescoping members in their adjusted positions.

3. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 2, and said telescoping arm member having a depending finger with a spring clip thereon for grasping the rear portion of the trousers.

4. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said main body member having rearwardly extending finger portion adapted to be engaged under and about vertically spaced rods mounted on a vertical support.

5. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said depending single finger carried by the spring clip, said spring clip having a slide plate slidable along the main body member and having a latch tooth depending therefrom, upstanding latch teeth on the main body adapted to be engaged by the latch tooth on the finger slide plate, and main body member having an elongated slot and said finger depending from said slide plate to said slot in the body member. said finger having a trough in its rear face open at its upper end to permit the finger of the hand while grasping the finger slide plate to be extended into the finger trough to facilitate the clamping adjustment of the hanger to the trousers.

6. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1. and a hook and a U-shaped clip slidably securing the hook in a balancing location on the telescopic members.

7. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1. and said telescopic members being arranged in pairs one above the other, the adjustable members having a depending finger connected between the same and the rear ends of the tubular members being provided with slots and a wall attaching plate having vertically adjusting projections engageable with the slots for removably attaching the hanger to a wall surface.

8. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 7, and said main body member being in the form of a vertically elongated sleeve slide fitted upon the tubular members and biasing springs being disposed between the sleeve and the fold ends of the tubular members.

9. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 8, and said single finger means comprising a second vertically elongated sleeve located ahead of the first sleeve and slidably mounted upon the telescoping members, said sleeve having a rearwardly extending portion extending between the fingers depending from the first sleeve and having the depending finger depending from the rear end thereof and adapted to grasp the front portion of the trousers and pull the same over and through the parallel depending fingers of the first sleeve.

10 A trouser measurer and hanger a defined in claim 9, and said rearwardly extending portion of the second-mentioned sleeve having a tooth, said bottom sleeve having a series of holding teeth engageable by the tooth on the rearwardly extending portion of the second sleeve, said top sleeve of the telescoping members having a spring biased lever and pin, said arm extending through the upper sleeve having a series of depressions adapted .to be received by the lever pin to hold the arms adjusted from the tubular sleeves for ascertaining and holding any size waist of the trousers. 

1. A trouser measurer and hanger comprising telescoping members adjustable relative to each other and having indicating marking to adjust the hanger to a given size of trouser, said telescoping members adapted to support the rear portion of the trousers, a body member connected to the telescoping members slidably movable relative thereto, a pair of laterally spaced fingers depending from the body member adapted to support the front portion Of the trousers, a slidable member slidably mounted upon the body member and having a finger depending therefrom between said spaced fingers, said finger adapted to engage the front portion of the trousers and pull the same over and between the fixed pair of depending fingers, locking means for securing the body member with the single finger in its adjusted position forwardly on the body member and spring biasing means carried on the body member to bias the body member rearwardly from the telescoping member.
 2. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said telescoping members comprising a tubular member and an arm extendable into the tubular member, a spring biased latch on one of the telescoping members and recess members on the other of the telescoping members to lock the telescoping members in their adjusted positions.
 3. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 2, and said telescoping arm member having a depending finger with a spring clip thereon for grasping the rear portion of the trousers.
 4. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said main body member having rearwardly extending finger portion adapted to be engaged under and about vertically spaced rods mounted on a vertical support.
 5. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said depending single finger carried by the spring clip, said spring clip having a slide plate slidable along the main body member and having a latch tooth depending therefrom, upstanding latch teeth on the main body adapted to be engaged by the latch tooth on the finger slide plate, and main body member having an elongated slot and said finger depending from said slide plate to said slot in the body member, said finger having a trough in its rear face open at its upper end to permit the finger of the hand while grasping the finger slide plate to be extended into the finger trough to facilitate the clamping adjustment of the hanger to the trousers.
 6. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and a hook and a U-shaped clip slidably securing the hook in a balancing location on the telescopic members.
 7. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 1, and said telescopic members being arranged in pairs one above the other, the adjustable members having a depending finger connected between the same and the rear ends of the tubular members being provided with slots and a wall attaching plate having vertically adjusting projections engageable with the slots for removably attaching the hanger to a wall surface.
 8. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 7, and said main body member being in the form of a vertically elongated sleeve slide fitted upon the tubular members and biasing springs being disposed between the sleeve and the fold ends of the tubular members.
 9. A trouser measurer and hanger as defined in claim 8, and said single finger means comprising a second vertically elongated sleeve located ahead of the first sleeve and slidably mounted upon the telescoping members, said sleeve having a rearwardly extending portion extending between the fingers depending from the first sleeve and having the depending finger depending from the rear end thereof and adapted to grasp the front portion of the trousers and pull the same over and through the parallel depending fingers of the first sleeve.
 10. A trouser measurer and hanger a defined in claim 9, and said rearwardly extending portion of the second-mentioned sleeve having a tooth, said bottom sleeve having a series of holding teeth engageable by the tooth on the rearwardly extending portion of the second sleeve, said top sleeve of the telescoping members having a spring biased lever and pin, said arm extending through the upper sleeve having a series of depressions adapted to be received by the lever pin to hold the arms adjusted from the tubular sleeves for ascertaining and holding any size waist of the trousers. 